Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 2.

Hello and welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here.

The full number is 877-97--3-7-4-25.

Delighted to have you.

I got to just real quick say congratulations to my friend Ben Sass, the senator from Nebraska.

He has been selected and will be leaving the U.S. Senate to become the president of the University of Florida.

I have known him for some time.

He's a great, great Christian guy, a brilliant thinker, was never a good fit for the U.S. Senate.

He would have been a fit for the Senate 100 years ago, not for today.

And I think he was ready to leave and get back into the academy to shape the minds of the future.

And he will be perfect at the University of Florida.

And I look forward to University of Georgia beating them next week in Jacksonville.

So, or two weeks from now.

So it'll be great.

He's a good dude. What's so interesting here are the number

of people who had been in the Republican Party who are really upset with Sass. He voted in the

second impeachment to convict Trump but not the first. And he's being attacked by a lot of

people who used to love him, not because he's too pro-Trump,

but because he didn't follow Liz Cheney's path.

It kind of tells you, frankly, just how broken a lot of people are when it comes to politics.

They have disparaging claims about those they dislike and they never actually

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